Paper fastener



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A. LOTZ.

PAPER FASTENER. 7 No. 290,336. Patented Dec. 18, 1883.

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ARTHUR LOTZ, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

PA PER-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,336, dated December 18, 1883.

Application filed June 22, 1883.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR LOTZ, of 51 Rue d Hauteville, Paris, in the Republic of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Fasteners, of whichthefollowing is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a paper-fastener which is simple and cheap in construction and convenient in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a completed fastener made in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 represents the position of the fastener after it is applied to use.

The fastener consists of a plain or fiat piece of suitable sheet metal, pointed and split longitudinally from both ends, forming a solid shank, a, from which two tangs, b 1), project in one direction, and two tangs, d d, in the opposite direction. Both ends being pointed, the

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fastener is reversible and either end may be inserted in the paper. After insertion, both the upper and lower tangs are bent down upon Witnesses:

R0131. M. HOOPER, J OSEPH S. J. EATON. 

